Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson is Founder and CEO of Minerva Project, Founder of Minerva University, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent global education. Nelson started Minerva in 2011 with the goal of nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world through a systematic and evidence-based approach to learning. Over the past decade, Nelson has built Minerva University into the most selective, most effective, and most innovative university in the world (named #1 for five consecutive years according to WURI rankings). Minerva Project was created to share Minerva’s unique approach with other like-minded institutions and has since accelerated the creation of groundbreaking new programs, new colleges, and entirely new universities worldwide. The Minerva Baccalaureate extends this approach into middle and secondary schools, expanding Minerva’s impact across the entire learning journey.

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AI for Good Global Summit
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7 July 2026
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